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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use

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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
Abstract/Description
Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be used for a range of purposes: ongoing program development, adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts, generating innovations and taking them to scale, and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Students and practicing evaluators will appreciate the book's extensive case examples and stories, cartoons, clear writing style, "closer look" sidebars, and summary tables. Provided is essential guidance for making evaluations useful, practical, and credible in support of social change.
Author/creator
Patton, Michael Quinn
Date
June 14, 2010
Publisher
Guilford Press
Resource type
en Background/Context
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
IRE Approach/Concept
Developmental Evaluation
Open access/free-text available
en No
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-60623-886-8
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (Guilford Press)
Citation
Patton, M. Q. (2010). Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use. Guilford Press.
Cited in
The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Methodological
en Theoretical
Item sets
Oxford Bibliography: The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
OB Citations - Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Evaluating Improvement Networks

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